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#80742
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Got the DVDs Today
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80742/action/topic#80742
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Originally posted by: oojason
What's a THX Optmizer?


There is a special menu on the disc that (among other things) helps you calibrate your TV's settings for color, contrast and sharpness. As I've learned from the boards, this is actually different for every movie, as opposed to making the friggin' DVD adhere to a particular spec (you know, so you'd have to set up your TV once and not have to screw with it every time for every movie).

Anyway, when I ran the optimizer, the matte blocks disappeared on my TV.

But Luke's saber is still green and the title card still recedes to quickly and the music is still reversed in the rear channels, so until these issues get properly, I'm going to remain a noisy cricket in Lucasfilm's ear.
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#80397
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80397/action/topic#80397
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If you are using DVD-Lab Pro, there are a bunch of things I've learned that will save you time and effort.

If you drag the disc's VTS_01_1.VOB file into the assets window, it will actually demux the audio, video and subtitles for you. This will take several minutes on a full sized disc. You then drag the demuxed files back into their respective video, audio and subtitle streams in the movie window. Then, drag your new subtitle file into the assets window (lower left corner?) and from there, into the movie window into its own subtitle stream. There is a mechanism somewhere that lets you set the default stream as well. I'm forgetting it at the moment.

Then, under the "project" menu, select "compile disc" to re-author your disc.
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#80012
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80012/action/topic#80012
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Originally posted by: jwenig
Hi, I'm new here but see many people here have a lot of insite with DVD's... and I am curious if there is a way to take the Total Movie
DVD that has the Troops Movie on it and isolate it by removing everything except the Troops movie, menu, and commentary byr Rubio.


Try ripping the full disc with DVDDecrypter in File mode, then stripping out everything but Troops using DVDFab. www.videohelp.com has great guides for how to do this. Familiarize yourself with this site and it'll become the greatest archiving reference in your arsenal.
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#80011
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80011/action/topic#80011
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Originally posted by: zion
Ash is sending me a copy of the Total Movie DVD, so I'll probably be making a Troops DVD at some point. I had no idea there were two versions of the theme song. Are both versions present on the DVD?


Sadly, no. The original "Bad Boys" is not on Total Movie, due to licensing rights for the song. They created a spoof, which is actually funnier on paper, called "Bad Droids." It's excecution is just not as good. RowMan's audio just sounded positively awesome at 384 kbits as opposed to the 196 of the Total Movie, not to mention the original song. I lifted that and synched it to the total movie video, and for me it's a perfect way of watching Troops.

If I can only work out my multiple audio thing (or get MBJ to do it for me) then I'm ready to roll with this compilation. Hopefully Rik or somebody can torrent this bad boy and get it out there far and wide. Stay tuned.
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#80005
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80005/action/topic#80005
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Good job. Some interesting choices in your version. You restored a few bits of the original dialogue, not unlike me, but in different places. An interesting blend of the original, MF's titles, my titles, and what appears to be some of your own ideas too. That's what I like most of all.

"Come on, I did lead you here." I like the way this particular line was handled. I can't even remember, was this an original line, or was this out of the head of HAL9000? Well handled in either case. This is one difference from both MF's and my versions that I unquestionably like better. I may re-mux the disc and add your subtitles in as an option as well. Might even crib some of your ideas for an update to my version. No time soon, but I'll hang onto this file for the next round.

By the way, there are some upper-case "I"s that got changed to lower case "L"s in my OCR process. Take a critical comb-through as I saw some stragglers in there. Sorry about that.

One more thing, you may want to add in an opening subtitle like in mine, that claims credit for the stream and, if necessary, tells where the other streams are.

Good job!
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#79920
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79920/action/topic#79920
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi


...and where the hell is it already?!?


Still dorking around adding other titlesets in increasingly better resolutions. I'm pretty much ready to go though, but it's definitely a DL disc now. I could compress everything, but that would defeat the purpose.

Sorry if this gets us off topic, but is there a GOOD version of Mather's short films? The official versions are so small that they do look like crap when blown up to DVD resolution. I'm nonetheless adding them to my compilation because they are among the best SW spoofs in existence, but I wish he'd make hi-res versions available officially.
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#79864
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Info Wanted: 'Troops' on the Total Movie DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79864/action/topic#79864
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I created a version from the total movie video that has three audio tracks (Bad Boys, Bad Droids and the commentary) but haven't gotten the selectable-audio menu figured out. Sending to MBJ soon for his help. I'm trying to create a compilation of Spoofs and Bonus Features from a few sources into one DL disc, with as much first-generation material as I can find. Most of this stuff is OOP so it's taken a bit of work to locate. Troops's "Bad Boys" audio is taken from the ANH compilation RowMan did because the audio quality there just sounds so doggone good.
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#79861
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Info: DanielB - Give capitalism a chance!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79861/action/topic#79861
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DanielB's views on censorship and capitalism make about as much sense as that person I once sparred with verbally who claimed E.T. should have beaten Gandhi for Best Picture because the latter was just "some dumb movie about a bald man running around in a diaper." That was the previous blue-ribbon-winner for dumb arguments, until now. I'm so done with this guy's trolling. MBJ, stop taking the bait.
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#79786
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79786/action/topic#79786
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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
OK, I lied. I already finished my alterations to the subtitle file above.

Now how exactly do I re-integrate it into the DVD file? Preferably as the automatic subtitle option, with the original MagnoliaFan subtitles as option number two that you can alternate to with remote control.


DVD-Lab Pro. You can get a 30-day demo from the link above. It'll let you integrate several subtitle streams, set the font (I used Arial Narrow with outline, can't remember the size) and you'll want to play with that for certain so your lines break when and where you want them.

You can create the project and preview it on your computer with something like PowerDVD v. 5.x or later without burning to a disc.

Welcome to this brave new world, Hal. Post your subtitles sometime. I'd love to see them.
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#79754
Topic
MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79754/action/topic#79754
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Originally posted by: Hal 9000Hey AdigitalMan, how exactly do you acess the subtitles on a DVD folder file?

I am thinking about purchasing a DVD burner and wouldn't mind changing some of the subtitles (tastefully, and only slightly of course).
Like correcting a few minor type-os, changing the "oh shit!" to "help me!", etc.


In short:
I used DVDDecrypter to rip the disc into its individual streams. File splitting was turned off, so the video was one big file and the audio was one big file. Made re-synching a non-issue.

Then I ripped MF's original subtitles (from the original DVD, not from the Demuxed streams) using SubRip and converted to a text format using the OCR utiltity. This was perhaps the most tedious process, but I got them in okay on a few passes, after several hours of trying. Skip this step because I've saved you all the time and effort by saving the file, as noted further down in this response.

I then used Subtitle Workshop to make the edits and to create a format that DVD Lab Pro could import. I added then used said tool to import the video file, the audio file, and now the two subtitle files. I then exported the movie project, burned it to a re-recordable to test, and after testing went OK, burned it to a recordable for archiving.

I ditched the original menu simply because I didn't know how to make the menu select subtitles. Instead, I just added a subtitle note in the first few seconds (during MF's title card) stating that this was my edit, the date (for version control purposes in case I update the file down the road) and that MF's original subs were on stream 2. You can select them with the subtitle button.

The entire compilation sans-menu was about 4.28 GB, which leaves room for more subtitle files to be added by additional editors who care to do so.

To save you all the SubRip and Subtitle Workshop steps, I've saved the text based SRT files which will import into DVD-Lab pro. Feel free to update them using the text editor of your choice, then re-mux into a project of your own.

You can download MF's Original Subtitles and my version and edit to your heart's content.

May the force be with youse.

Citing my sources: I used a combination of tools and methods based largely on this guide and this other guide and then customized them as the project and my instincts dictated.
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#79750
Topic
MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79750/action/topic#79750
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MF points out what I thought everybody realized in his edit. The entire subplot of Dooku as Palp's Apprentice (and therefore a sith) was entirely woven out. Not just the yellow lightsaber and final scene on Coruscant, but also the dialogue between Jango and Obi-Wan. He did a very careful job with this. What I was getting at was an alternate take (based on a really missed opportunity on Lucas' part) where the Sith relationship would be revealed, perhaps in Episode III (where it will inevitably be revealed) and have Dooku with a purple saber instead of Mace. The purple would have been derived from using one blue crystal and one red crystal, if you know your lore on Lightsaber construction. Having Mace with purple denotes him having more of a Sith connection, which isn't who the character is.

As MF's edit stands, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the yellow saber. It works because he did a top-notch editing job on the plot points surrounding the color change.
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#79613
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Censorship of the original films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79613/action/topic#79613
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Moved from the MeBeJedi forum to get that room back on topic and yet to still weigh in with that room.

Originally posted by: DanielB

ADigitalMan, to answer your question. Do people look at original art for any particular reason? Why do people look at picassos rather than MY IMPROVED "picasso paintings"? Are you telling me, if Picasso painted a dull looking picture, and I made it look better you would prefer to look at my version of it rather than picasso's original?

I have three points to make, then I'm done with this issue:

1) DanielB, you have no problem using the forum's editing function to revise/fix your thoughts after they've been published. Don't cast stones in your house of glass.

2) How many Picassos do you own? How many Picassos have you seen in person? Do you not think that looking at a Picasso in a book hasn't had some form of alteration to make it appropriately presentable in the medium in which you've viewed it? If there is no point in viewing a Picasso except as intended by Picasso himself, then one should ONLY view the version hanging in the gallery, and never own a lithograph, a book, or a photo, because ALL OF THESE CONTAIN ALTERATIONS FROM THE ARTIST'S ORIGINAL. It's inescapable.

3) Getting back to Star Wars, I have nothing against preservists preserving the O-OT. But which O-OT gets to be preserved in your mind? Why is the DE LD worth preserving when it too contains revisions from the original theatrical version? You crap all over somebody correcting a frame that needs correcting, but yet you say nothing about the drastic changes from the 1977 theatrical version to the 1981 theatrical version, AND you accept the 1993 Laserdisc version which we know sports changes from the original.
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#79608
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79608/action/topic#79608
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What might have been neat would to have Mace's saber the traditional blue or green, and have Dooku's saber as purple. This would have done far more to underscore the "Is he Jedi or is he Sith?" question. George punked out to Sam L. when he made the blade purple, and as MF said it earlier in the thread, all bets were off at that point on saber color. The Red-saber/Sith connection never bothered me in Attack of the Clones, but the yellow-saber change MF did was really cool too.

And though I'd have probably left in the final scene with Dooku and Sidious, showing them in allegiance as the final twist, MF deftly handled weaving out the entire subplot and making his notion of Dooku simply a rogue Jedi totally work.

MF, regarding this idea about Dooku and a purple saber, would that have addressed any of your issues with the red flashes any better? i.e. Would the purple have done more to hide the red than the yellow did? And again, I think the yellow saber with the red halo and flashes actually looked pretty bitchin' on the whole.
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#79098
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STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/79098/action/topic#79098
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The version on myspleen is the cruddier version but with the fun bonus features of the Muppet Show and the Kenner Commercials. The second version to which you refer is positively marvelous ... for the SWHS anyway. Excellent transfer that's probably not going to get much better unless Lucas relents and releases it officially. I doubt that will ever happen, and certainly not without a ton of his revisionist crap.